THE HORSE'S MOUTH (1958) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston,
Mike Morgan, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger
Eccentric comedy starring Alec Guinness as a misanthropic artist who gets out of prison and immediately returns to a life of conning and painting. Guinness wrote the script, based on a novel by Joyce Cary, and his performance makes the movie - a shabby, gravel-voiced curmudgeon whose casual disregard for social convention goes hand in hand with an obsession to make art.
Ronald Neame
(1911-2010)
